agents won the first Tour de Nice in 1899 in a vehicle named after his daughter. The Mercedes-Benz Museum displays a collection of 175 cars, the earliest of them a Karl Benz patent vehicle and a Daimler

ocuments provide evidence about the life and work of the Greg family and their workforce. 3. A Living Museum Quarry Bank Mill and Styal Estate is still a working Cotton Mill producing over 9,000m (10,000 yards)

and signalling, and since its re-opening has been part of the London Overground circuit. The Brunel Museum was established in 1961, in a building that housed the tunnel’s drainage pumps. It includes the Grand [...] Brunel later organised fairs and banquets there and it currently served as a performance space. The museum provides a full history of the tunnel and visitors are encouraged to travel by boat, train or on

slate tiles on almost every roof in Britain had been mined and cut by Welshmen.The National Slate Museum in Llanberis gives visitors a vivid impression of their masterly skills. It is located in the Victorian

the furnace pond had its use. It drove the furnace blowing engine via a waterwheel. Visitors to the museum can see for themselves - live - how this worked. An ancient steam engine is also still in operation

The museum in the castle has displays on the history of the youth hostel movement, but also on the geology and history of the region, including its industrial history. The entrance to the museum lies [...] lies 300 m from the Deutsche Drahtmuseum (German wire museum).

present day. The German Wire Museum exists since 1965. It was originally housed in a part of the mediaeval Altena Fortress but this was soon bursting at the seams. Since 1999 the museum has found a new home in [...] wire or wire netting you’re in for a huge and very pleasant surprise when you visit the German Wire Museum in Altena in the Sauerland region, south of the Ruhr. Here you can see everything which has been [...] measure extremely high temperatures and loads with the help of wire. It is no surprise that this museum is located in Altena. The industrial history of the town is brimming over with wire-drawers. Not

and it is regularly opened. The textile museum is on the most important museum of this kind in Italy. Covering an area of 2,400 square metres, the Textile Museum displays an extensive range of textiles [...] trading in 1994. The work of the factory rehabilitation begun in 2000. In May 2003 Prato Textile Museum (just operating since 1975) has been definitively housed in the converted Campolmi textile mill.

industrial heritage by the association “Haus für Industriekultur”. It has been owned by the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt’s department of typecasting, typesetting and print technology since 2001. The collection [...] dates back to the largest European type foundry, D. Stempel AG (1895-1985) in Frankfurt am Main. The museum demonstrates developments in the printing industry from the beginning of the 19th century right up

the locomotive as it chuffs peacefully along the Ruhr valley. There is no doubt that the Railway Museum in the Bochum suburb of Dahlhausen arouses a lot of nostalgia. On Sundays there is always a hand-lever [...] nearby station at Bochum-Dahlhausen. The station with its restored entrance hall also belongs to the museum. Amongst the exhibits to be seen here is a collection of rail tickets. The fact that none of this [...] Maintaining and repairing the huge amount of vehicles in the correct manner is a major part of the museum´s activities. The Bochum-Dahlhausen railway works first went into operation in 1918 as a repair workshop

The Museum Wäschefabrik (linen wear factory museum) at Bielefeld is one of the relatively few places at which the heritage of the manufacture of clothing (as distinct from the production of fabrics) is [...] the Föderverein Projekt Wäschefabrik, was established to ensure the preservation of the factory. A museum was opened in the building in 1997. Visitors can see how clothing was made in the mid-twentieth century [...] escaped. There are Stolpersteine (commemorative stones in the pavement) for the three women outside the museum in Bielefeld.

from 9 m to 1200 m, the deepest of them known as the Frisch-Gluck-Schacht (the new luck shaft). The museum is based in the Kaiserin-Augusta-Schacht (the Queen Augusta mine), which was sunk to a depth of 260 [...] 260 m in 1869. From 1946 the mine was named after the philosopher Karl Liebknecht. The museum was established from 1976 by former miners and was officially opened in 1986. From 2002 visitors have been

Portugal’s first museum of the paper industry is in the community of Santa Maria da Feira, south of Oporto. People in the region were engaged in the making of paper from the early eighteenth century, but [...] but the last mills stopped working before the end of the twentieth century. The museum is owned by the local municipality and is located in two former paper Mills, the Azvedos Mill, and the Custódio factory

the Madeira islands, 1100 km south-west of Lisbon, where there are many remains of refineries. The museum of sugar is housed in a building constructed on the foundations of the fifteenth-century home of

was generated for street lighting in Funchal, principal city of the Madeira islands, from 1897. The museum, located in the Central Termica do Funchal, the original power station, was established to commemorate

house on the site of a glue factory that was demolished in the early 1970s. In 2002, the technical museum was opened. Since then, historical methods of production and their products have been brought up [...] 1904 from the former glue factory has been preserved at its original location and is now one of the museum's outstanding exhibits. On demonstration days, it drives the transmission system of several reconstructed

to Seville; the mining museum revitalising the former compressor house with infinite audio-visual installations illustrating historical modes of extraction; and the mercury museum in a warehouse of 1941 [...] ce of mercury by offering interactive experiments. Even the Miners’ Hospital of 1752 partly is a museum today while the other part hosts the archives of the mines.

installed in 1949 generates electric power to work 50-year-old looms and can be viewed. The mill museum includes carding engines, spinning mules and warping machines. A 12 minute video shows how the wool

workshop for making balloons in the First World War, and for many years was an outpost of the air museum at le Bourget airport. It is designated as an historical monument, and was inscribed on the French

chemicals and food. The Museum of Science and Technology and the Museum of Industrial Design are part of the Adrenalin City complex of cultural and entertainment venues. The museums were established in 2013 [...] presented in a way intended to interest visitors and inspire the designers of the future. The Korsaks’ Museum of Ukrainian Contemporary Art is also part of the Adrenalin City complex.